research fellow
zachar.istvan [at] ecolres.hu
+36 30 496 0779
Brief description of the main scopes:
Prebiotics - Evolution - Major Evolutionary Transitions - Cultural Evolution - Human Cognitive Processes
Prebiotics: origin of life, early template evolution and coexistence;
Eukaryotic origin: origin of eukaryotic complexity, origin of mitochondria, nucleogenesis; Major Evolutionary Transitions;
Culture: origin and early evolution of the human language, cultural evolution, origin and evolution syntax and grammar;
Learning: human cognitive processes, modelling learning, insight learning via neural models;
Main profile in keywords:
prebiotics, replicator theory and dynamics, origin of life, origin of eukaryotes, especially origin of mitochondria, origin of language, modelling ecological and evolutionary dynamics, major evolutionary transitions
Selected publications:
2018
Zachar István, Szilágyi András, Számadó Szabolcs, Szathmáry Eörs (2018):
Farming the mitochondrial ancestor as a model of endosymbiotic establishment by natural selection
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 115:(E1504) p. E1510.
2017
András Szilágyi, István Zachar, Anna Fedor, Harold P de Vladar, Eörs Szathmáry (2017):
Breeding novel solutions in the brain: a model of Darwinian neurodynamics
F1000 Research 2017 5:2416
Szilágyi András, Zachar István, Scheuring István, Kun Ádám, Könnyű Balázs, Czárán Tamás (2017):
Ecology and evolution in the RNA world: dynamics and stability of prebiotic replicator systems
Life 7(4),48
Zachar I, E Szathmáry (2017):
Breath-giving cooperation: critical review of origin of mitochondria hypotheses: Major unanswered questions point to the importance of early ecology
Biology Direct 12(1): 19.
2013
András Szilágyi, István Zachar, Eörs Szathmáry (2013):
Gause's principle and the effect of resource partitioning on the dynamical coexistence of replicating templates
PLoS Computational Biology 9(8):e1003193